Who are We

The relationship between the body, the brain and the mind is complex and magnificent, which is why lots of people are investigating it. This website focuses on attempts to better understand the way the body, brain and mind interact. The lead scientist, Prof. Lorimer Moseley, is particularly interested in the role of the brain and mind in chronic and complex pain disorders. Through collaborations with clinicians, scientists, patients and thoughtful friends, the team is exploring how the brain and its representation of the body change when pain persists, how the mind influences physiological regulation of the body, how the changes in the brain and mind can be normalised via treatment, and how we can teach people about it all in a way that is both interesting and accurate. This website includes links to published articles, current projects, teaching resources for clinicians and lecturers, books, seminars and conferences and other info that the team thinks is intriguing, important or irresistible.

Science in art

McGill Pain Questionnaire , Eugenie Lee

BiM has been collaborating with the very impressive Eugenie Lee and the also very impressive Cat Jones to create some unique and helpful artistic productions about pain and chronic pain. Both artists have spent significant time in our laboratory in Adelaide, and with the team in both Adelaide and Sydney. We are very excited to announce that the inaugural pain-related art exhibition,The Art of Pain, will be on during the National Pain week in July. The exhibition will open on the 20th July till 31st July, at Hawkes Building in UniSA.

He has published 190 papers, four books and numerous book chapters. He has given over 120 keynote or invited presentations at interdisciplinary meetings in 26 countries and has provided professional education in pain sciences to over 8000 medical and health practitioners. He consults to governmental and industry bodies in Europe and North America on pain-related issues. He was awarded the inaugural Ulf Lindblom Award for the outstanding mid-career clinical scientist working in a pain-related field by the International Association for the Study of Pain, was shortlisted for the 2011 and 2012 Australian Science Minister’s Prize for Life Sciences, and won the 2013 Marshall & Warren Award from the NHMRC, for the Best Innovative and Potentially Transformative Project. He was made Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2011, by original contribution, and an Honoured Member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association, their highest honour, in 2014.

About BodyInMind

Here is a 4 minute blurb on what we are doing at BiM and a little on why we are doing it.

Link to Collaborators – the people with whom we are doing real life research.

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Do you have back pain? We need you!

We are looking for people who have back pain that has persisted for more than 3 months.
Our study in Adelaide is investigating the relationship between chronic back pain and poor sleep, and the contributions of general mood and beliefs about pain.

We are asking that you complete a questionnaire about your general health, pain and sleep characteristics. You will also be asked to wear a wristwatch type device that records your activity levels for one week while also maintaining a pain and sleep diary. If you choose to participate, you will be given a report on your sleep quality. This research has been approved by the UniSA Ethics Committee Ref. 0000033839 “Chronic Back Pain and Sleep study”.

If you are interested, please contact Danny on 8302 1432 or email danny.camfferman@unisa.edu.au.

Please take our survey

The Body in Mind Research Group at the University of South Australia invites you to be part of an investigation on hand postures and pain.

We are interested in the things that affect how we experience pain. A better understanding of this will help us to make sense of acute and chronic pain.

If you are 18 years or older and have hand pain, hand arthritis or you are pain free we invite you to participate in our short survey here.

Participants needed – Adelaide

Do you live in Adelaide? Are you female between 25 and 70 and have good hearing? Do you have fibromyalgia or would you like to help someone who has by being a participant in a very interesting and painless study we are conducting at the University of South Australia.

The study examines sensory processing in people with fibromyalgia and those without by recording your eye blink responses to some sounds. You also need to complete several questionnaires that ask about your health and well-being so we need up to 2 hours of your time.

Compensation of $20 per hour up to a maximum of 2 hours is offered. If you are interested, please contact Carolyn.berryman@unisa.edu.au.

Healthy volunteers needed

We are investigating the effects of a (non-painful) tendon vibration illusion in the way you feel your body. This will involve 1 session lasting approximately 1.5 hours and you will be reimbursed $20 for your time.

If you live in Adelaide and are healthy and are right handed with no pain in your hands and arms please contact: Valeria Bellan or
Sarah Wallwork

Everyone experiences some degree of involuntary motion when trying to keep their hand still. Known as physiological tremor, the underlying mechanisms have been debated for over a century. Two explanations, neural and mechanical, are generally offered. The neural theory suggests that involuntary movements directly reflect oscillations in the control signal sent to arm muscles (McAuley […]

Over 15 000 times every day we draw air into the lungs by expansion of the chest wall and abdomen; we breathe. This movement occurs by activation of inspiratory muscles from electrical signals from the brain to the respiratory motoneurones in the spinal cord. There are many inspiratory muscles that can expand the chest wall and […]

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We aim to facilitate and disseminate good clinical science research. We love comments that engage with the research and are constructive and respectful. No self-promotion of your particular therapy please (these comments get filed in the recycling bin).
We do not prescribe treatments.